How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole site hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all web space hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration options

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...